AVR may refer to any of the following: 1. Short for Automatic Voltage Regulator, AVR is a hardware device used to maintain a voltage to electronic devices. 2. Short for Automatic Voice Recognition, AVR is the ability of a computer or other electronic device to identify and understand human voice. 3.
The plant is indigenous to South America and is said to originate from the area between southern Brazil and Paraguay; however, little is known about the origin of the domesticated pineapple (Pickersgill, 1976). M.S. Bertoni (1919) considered the ParanÃ¡âParaguay River drainages to be the place of origin of A. comosus.
Report Abuse. The name pineapple comes from the similarity of the fruit to a pine cone. I believe that it is shaped like a big a*** pine cone and its sweet and tarty like an apple. There you have it.eport Abuse. pine cones were originally called pineapples because they grew on pine trees...when the pine apple was discovered, they thought it looked similar to a pine cone (pineapple) and thus named it a pineapple. Source(s): answers.com.